Martin Lorenzo Santiago (born June 8, 1987), who goes by Marty and sometimes Marty Mar, is an American rapper in the
Christian hip hop genre. He is part of the duo,
Social Club Misfits
Social Club Misfits, known as Social Club from 2012 until 2016, is a Christian hip hop duo from Miami, Florida made up of rappers FERN and Marty Mar. They formed their musical partnership in 2011 and released their first free album, entitled ' ...
, with his partner,
Fern
A fern (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta ) is a member of a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. The polypodiophytes include all living pteridophytes exce ...
. His first
extended play
An extended play record, usually referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record. , ''Marty for President'', was released in 2015. This was his breakthrough release upon the
''Billboard'' magazine charts.
Early life
Santiago was born, Martin Lorenzo Santiago,
on June 8,
1987,
and he was raised in
Broward County
Broward County ( , ) is a county in the southeastern part of Florida, located in the Miami metropolitan area. It is Florida's second-most populous county after Miami-Dade County and the 17th-most populous in the United States, with over 1.94 m ...
where he and
Fernando
Fernando is a Spanish and Portuguese given name and a surname common in Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Switzerland, former Spanish or Portuguese colonies in Latin America, Africa, the Philippines, India, and Sri Lanka. It is equivalent to the G ...
established
Social Club.
Music career
Marty's solo music recording career started in 2015, with the
extended play
An extended play record, usually referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record. , ''Marty for President'', that was released on September 11, 2015, by Social Club. The extended play was his breakthrough release upon the
''Billboard'' magazine charts, where it placed on five charts, while it peaked at No. 64 on
The ''Billboard'' 200,
No. 1 on
Christian Albums
Top Christian Albums is a weekly chart published in ''Billboard'' magazine that ranks the best-performing Christian albums in the United States. Like the ''Billboard'' 200, the data is compiled by Nielsen Soundscan based on each album's weekly ...
,
No. 9 on
Independent Albums,
No. 7 on
Rap Albums,
and No. 14 on
Digital Albums
The ''Billboard'' charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in the United States and elsewhere. The results are published in ''Billboard'' magazine. ''Billboard'' biz, the online extension of the ''Billboard'' charts, pr ...
.
Discography
EPs
References
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1987 births
Living people
American performers of Christian music
Musicians from Miami
Performers of Christian hip hop music
Rappers from Miami
21st-century American rappers